Substance Use Disorders, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

In this issue of Medical Clinics, guest editor Melissa B. Weimer brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Substance Use Disorders.

• Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on the latest updates in Substance Use Disorders, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

List of contents

What Is Addiction? History, Terminology, and Core Concepts
Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol and Drug Use in General Medicine Settings
Disparities in Addiction Treatment: Learning from the Past to Forge an Equitable Future
The Spectrum of Alcohol Use: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Current Best Practices for Acute and Chronic Management of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
Understanding Stimulant Use and Use Disorders in a New Era
Tobacco Use Disorder
Benzodiazepines and Related Sedatives
Clinical Approaches to Cannabis: A Narrative Review
Prevention of Substance Use Disorders
Perioperative Buprenorphine Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Infectious Complications of Injection Drug Use
Harm Reduction in Health Care Settings
Gender Dynamics in Substance Use and Treatment: A Women's Focused Approach

Product details

• Assisted by: Melissa B. Weimer (Editor), Melissa B Weimer (Editor), Melissa B. Weimer (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2021
• EAN: 9780323848763
• ISBN: 978-0-323-84876-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Critical Care, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, MEDICAL / Toxicology, Medical toxicology, Clinical & internal medicine, Accident and emergency medicine